Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-03
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

JANUARY, 25.-Huuse Bills passed
Il B. making partial appropriations for
the officers and public institU tions of
the state, with the state fair appropria-
tion eliminated; 5 b authorizing Mus
kingum county and the soldiers monu-
ment association, to erect monumen>
tai building and armory; III B requiring
that children shall be sent TO children s
homes instead of the county intirmary.
Bills introduced: Making appropria
tions for the public works. SS3, 900 and
receipts; for the intermediate peniten
tiary 100000; for the To.edo asylum
S170,44O.
Senate-Bills passed: S B to punish
fraudulent transfers ON a herd book i,
5 B, unclaimed bodies of paupers found
on highways to be buried by township
trustees.
Bills Introduced: Real estate compa-
nies to incorporate; sheriffs and other
officers to take cOguiZance of prisoners
charged with disdemeanor during term
time; to refund the Scott liquor tax.
Appointments by the governor con-
firmad; Ex-President Hayes to be trus-
tee of 0. 5. University for term of sew
en- years beginning in May next; s E
Kemp for Insurance commissioner, M
DOane for state librarian, w S Cappei
ler for railroad commissioner, aud Leo
Hirst for supervisor of public printing
JAN. 26-Senate - A soldiers and sal
lors' home committee was created
Bills introduced: For the purchase of
a governors mansion not to exceed $50 :
600.
House-The Fimple township local
option bill was discussed and postpon-
ed to Wednesday and the Lampsor
township local option bill was under
discussion.
Bills passed: H B, making partial
appropriations, with the item for cent
trail building at the state fair grounds
included;S B holding landlords responr
sible for water hydrant.
JAN. 27.-Senate-Bills passed: II B,
Christian church. Quaker City, to sell
real estate; S 3, equitable assessment of
public improvements on adjacent prop
erty; S B for the vacation of abandoned
roads.
Bills introduced: For the construction
regulation of elevated rail ways; stallion
keepers to file liens with county record+
ers; death of litigants not to abate act>
ion in courts; active residents only to
have school privileges in villages and
city districts.
House House bill for township local
option defeated, yeas Al, nays 52-recon-
sidered and postponed to Thursday next.
House bill for the regulation of tele'
phone rates after the Indiana law, de-
feated, yeas 36, nays "a.
Bills passed: II B making 55 pounds q
bushel of plums.
Bills introduced: Butler county to
issue bonds (5J0,0O0) to complete the
court house; rerestablishing asylum
districts in the state; TO punish persons
bringing diseased cattle into the state
to prevent fraudulent dealing in fruit;
for immediate trial of misdomeanors be-
fore probate courts; giving probate
courts Jurisdiction in arbitration cases
exceeding 500; abandoning the COlum>
bus feeder of the Ohio canal.
JAN. 31.-Senate-Bil introduced: ::
Will cases to be appealed to the circuit
court TO pay the funded debt and inter
est on the irreducible debt.
House-Bills introduced: Giving fe>
males representation on county boards
of school examiners; requiring admins
traitors to make inventories on oath; al
lowing farmers and nurserymen to catch
rabbits with ferrets; to publish syDop-
sis of the report of the examiners of
county treasurers instead of the whole
report; amending the labor lien law;
changing the date of the tax lien to Oc-
tooer IS; enlarging the powers of the
boards of visitors to county charitable
institutions.